flog of war

* "(AP) - Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president." www.amendforarnold.com 66/1 still?http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041114/D86BAJ8O0.html

* "Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Helen Caldicott fears US President George Bush's re-election will lead to Armageddon and she isn't sure if mankind would survive another four years." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/15/1100384498193.html

*howardean: : "The truth is the president of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country," Dean charged. "I know George Bush. I served with him for six years [as a fellow governor]. He's not a homophobe. He's not a racist. He's not a sexist. In some ways, what he did was worse ... because he knew better."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111404U.shtml

* "But has anybody read the 2004 Republican platform on abortion? It doesn't merely call for reversal of Roe vs. Wade. It calls for "legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children," and for judges who believe likewise. How's that for activism? If fetuses are "persons" under the 14th amendment, which guarantees all persons "equal protection of the law," abortion would be illegal whether a state or the Congress wanted to keep it legal it or not. More than that: There could be no legal distinction between the rights of fetuses and the rights of human beings after birth" once this happens, then pregnant women can be charged with murder and manslaughter and gbh if they drink while pregnant. or take drugs. or whatever. including say, if u did drugs before you even knew you were pregnant. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111504W.shtml

* the teeve keeps telling me that fallujah has been liberated. its so brainless. mindless. soulless. shameless.

* safire is leaving the nyt. heres his latest foil4ood nonsense. "Sad to see is the secretary general's manipulative abuse of Paul Volcker. Here is a former central banker so confident of his hard-earned reputation for integrity that he cannot see how it is being shredded by a web of sticky-fingered officials and see-no-evil bureaucrats desperate to protect the man on top who hired him to substitute for - and thereby to abort - prompt and truly independent investigation." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/opinion/15safire.html

* document this "The U.S. government said on Friday it was giving airlines until Nov. 23 to turn over information on millions of people who took domestic flights in June to test a new system for identifying passengers who may pose security risks." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6803495

* ap "Witnesses reported a fourth car bombing late Monday in Ramadi against a U.S. convoy but there was no report of casualties." which is somewhat different to there being 'no casualties' - but delayed reporting keeps things outta the news. much nicer to announce it retrospectively. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20041115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_041115202307
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Four more years. Seriously.
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